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Kaare D. Tranæs
I switched from Copenhagen Business School to study metabolism and human biology. During my master’s I discovered the concept of Reproducible Research and became obsessed with developing my statistical data analysis and programming skills, eventually receiving a PhD position in the computational microbiome group at COPSAC. My passions are biology and software, and I dream of a career that allows me to combine the two, building tools for automation and reproducibility within the life sciences.
Education
PhD student
COPSAC
Dansk BørneAstma Center
current - 2023
- Trail manager of a phase 1 RCT in infant microbiome modulation using virome transfers. Metagenomic sequencing and bioinformatics.
MSc. Human Biology
University of Copenhagen
N/A
2022 - 2020
- Thesis: Establishing an Experimental Animal Model of Necrotizing Enterocolitis (A)
- Written in Rmarkdown. Complete reproducibility with Pandoc adn pagedown
- Data and source code available on github.
B.S., Food Science and Nutrition
University of Copenhagen
N/A
2019 - 2016
- Thesis: Effects of Alcohol Consumption of Lipoprotein Subfractions (A)
Research Experience
Research Assistant
FOOD Microbiology
University of Copehagen
2022 - 2020
- Data manager, statistician, and first author on results from the SIMBA RCT.
- Codebase available on Github
Research Assistant
FOOD Microbiology
University of Copehagen
2021 - 2020
Research Assistant
Nutrition & Exercise Institute
UCPH
2020 - 2019
- Co-authored a systematic review published in 2021.
Industry Experience
I have worked in a variety of roles ranging from technical IT support to literature review software, to clinical reserach specialist. I enjoy collaborative environments where I can learn from my peers.
Clinical Research Specialist Assistant
AMBU A/S
Ballerup, Denmark
2023 - 2021
- Literature pipeline developer.
- Implemented DistillerSR (systematic literature review software).
- Wrote python tool for automatically screening research papers for clinical outcomes (using stackoverflow and GPT).
Entrepreneur
SMARTLENS
Svendborg, Denmark
2016 - 2011
- Ran a webshop with photography equipment for smartphones and tablets.
- Featured on “Go’morgen Danmark” and “So ein Ding”.
Project Manager
GoMore APS
Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 - 2014
- Planned and executed promotion campaigns, market research projects and helped create the leasing-car agreement between GoMore and LeasePlan Denmark
Publications
Development of safe and effective bacteriophage-mediated therapies against C. difficile infections – a proof-of-concept preclinical study
Co-authored
N/A
2023 - 2023
Overcoming donor variability and risks associated with fecal microbiota transplants through bacteriophage-mediated treatments
Co-authored
N/A
2023
Supplementation for six weeks with a fermented canola-seaweed blend is well tolerate but does not influence oral glucose tolerance, gut microbiome, or plasma metabolome in obese individuals - a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled trial.”
First author
N/A
2023
- Submitted, under review
Dissociation Between Insulin Resistance and Abnormalities in Lipoprotein Particle Concentrations and Sizes in Normal-Weight Chinese Adults
First author
N/A
2020 - 2019
Moderate alcohol consumption and lipoprotein subfractions: a systematic review of intervention and observational studies
Second author
N/A
2020 - 2019